Legal Opinion

State v. Case

Montana Supreme Court

Decided July 10, 2007No. DA 06-0554PublishedCited by 27 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Leaphart

¶1 Defendant Raymond Case was convicted of two counts of felony possession of dangerous drugs and one count of possession of dangerous drug paraphernalia, a misdemeanor. The drugs were found during an alleged consent search of Case’s vehicle conducted after Case was pulled over for a traffic violation. Case moved to suppress the evidence, asserting that the officer exceeded the scope of the initial stop by detaining him and continuing to question him after issuing the traffic citations. We affirm.

¶2 We restate the issue as follows:

¶3 Did the District Court err in denying Case’s motion to…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. United States v. MendenhallSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  2. State v. RobertsMontana Supreme Court · 1999
  3. State v. HillMontana Supreme Court · 2004
  4. State v. CarlsonMontana Supreme Court · 2000
  5. State v. CopeltonMontana Supreme Court · 2006

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3Cited by27 opinions

  1. State v. Randy GrahamMontana Supreme Court · 2007
  2. State v. D. HurlbertMontana Supreme Court · 2009
  3. State v. EllisMontana Supreme Court · 2009
  4. State v. S. HooverMontana Supreme Court · 2017
  5. City of Missoula v. KroschelMontana Supreme Court · 2018

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